Java is designed to let programmers write software to run on all types of computers, whether they use Windows, Apple's Mac OS or some other operating system.

Microsoft is offering advice on how to protect yourself from Java-based malware. The instructions are simple: either update it, disable it, or just uninstall it completely.

Sun says it is "disappointed" by the company's decision to not include Java software in its Windows XP and Internet Explorer products.

Sun charged that Microsoft’s version of Java was incompatible with the Java specification. As a result of the legal action, Microsoft stopped updating J++ by 2001, and discontinued support for ...

Microsoft, which once was at loggerheads with Java founder Sun Microsystems over its distribution of Java, has been making amends with the Java community, even offering its own Microsoft Build of ...

The battle between Sun and Microsoft over inclusion of JRE in Windows wages on. At stake: middleware supremacy -- and the key strategic decisions that your business are facing now.

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK could set up the company to compete with Oracle in the Java distribution space.

Under that settlement, Microsoft was permitted to distribute its version of Java in Windows 2000, a version that was based on the source code in version 1.1.4 of Sun's Java Developer Kit.

Recently, a Microsoft spokesperson told us, the VS Code team noticed that it was still difficult for some developers, including students and novices programmers, to set up their Java development ...

Reversing an earlier hard-line stance, Microsoft today disclosed that an upcoming update to its Windows XP operating system will include a Java virtual machine.